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But the Holy Spirit of God is life-giving, who has made us no longer under law, but under grace and has guaranteed that we not return "evil for evil," but rather to provide good for evil. For, he says, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him;" and again to the same: "The first Adam became a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit;" and to the Galatians: "He who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap eternal life;" and according to John, speaking from the Savior: "It is the spirit that gives life." Ezekiel, declaring this very thing, and that with God, as his spirit, he will bring about the resurrection, prophesies: "Thus says the Lord to these dry bones: behold, I will bring into you a spirit of life, and I will put sinews upon you, and I will bring up flesh upon you, and I will stretch skin over you, and I will put my spirit into you, and you shall live and you shall know that I am the Lord." Therefore, the life in essence and the life-giving power has neither beginning nor end nor change; and that which does not fall under these things is by nature and in truth God, since indeed it possesses by its own nature the exceptional qualities of God and the Father. For nothing created can be the cause of life or show life in itself; but all things deprived of the divine spirit are dead; "for in him we live and move and have our being," as the Acts of the Apostles said. For if all things that come into being are also perishable, and the perishing things are deprived of enduring life; how could they grant to others those things of which they themselves are in need? We are therefore made alive by the Holy Spirit, just as also by him who said: "I am the resurrection and the life." 7.2 That because of the identity of the Godhead and the equal operation, it is written that sometimes the Father, sometimes he himself, sometimes the Holy Spirit raised Christ who willingly suffered for us in the flesh. And against the heretical exposition. That because of the identity of the Godhead and the one operation, the scriptures say that sometimes the Father, sometimes he himself, sometimes the Holy Spirit raised Jesus Christ according to the form of a servant; thus the Acts: "This man God raised on the third day;" John from the Savior: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But he spoke of the temple of his body;" and again: "I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." Peter in his first epistle: "Christ also died once for sins for us, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit." 7.3 That he creates and raises from the dead. In the same, that to sanctify is to create and is more necessary than to create. And against the heretical exposition. That he creates the great creation, man, and raises him from the dead and gives him life and returns him to heaven, and the earth, having been corrupted along with human iniquities, the Holy Spirit renewed again and revived without effort and as if automatically, as co-creator and equal-worker of the architect God who established it in the beginning, as it is permitted for us to know from what these men have declared: Job: "The divine Spirit is that which made me; and the breath of the Almighty is that which teaches me." David in the 103rd Psalm: "You will send forth your spirit and they shall be created, and you will renew the face of the earth." The apostle confirms this, writing to the Corinthians the second time: "So that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new." And in the 32nd Psalm: "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made firm, and by the spirit of his mouth all their powers" do not pass by the things that can be heard from this; but see that—as creator and good God—the Spirit of God, abiding forever, grants a permanent friendship to creation and has bound it with unbreakable bonds and made it firm. unshakable and supports all things by his own power; and that it is unlawful to call a creature that which creates and empowers the creatures of God. For a fellow-worker and

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ζωοποιὸν δὲ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸ μηκέτι ὑπὸ νόμον, ἀλλ' ὑπὸ χάριν ἡμᾶς ποιῆσαν καὶ παρεγγυῆσαν μὴ ἀποδοῦναι· «κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ», μᾶλλον δὲ ἀγαθὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ παρασχεῖν. «ἐάν», γὰρ φησίν, «πεινᾷ ὁ ἐχθρός σου, χόρτασον αὐτόν·» καὶ πάλιν τοῖς αὐτοῖς· «ἐγένετο ὁ πρῶτος Ἀδὰμ εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν, ὁ ἔσχατος Ἀδὰμ εἰς πνεῦμα ζωοποιοῦν·» Γαλάταις δέ· «ὁ σπείρων εἰς τὸ πνεῦμα, ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος θερίσει ζωὴν αἰώνιον·» καὶ κατὰ Ἰωάννην λέγοντα ἀπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος· «τὸ πνεῦμά ἐστιν τὸ ζωοποιοῦν.» αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο δηλῶν Ἰεζεκιήλ, καὶ ὅτι σὺν τῷ θεῷ, ὡς πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ, τὴν ἀνάστασιν ποιήσει, προφητεύει· «τάδε λέγει κύριος τοῖς ὀστέοις τοῖς ξηροῖς τούτοις· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ εἰσάγω εἰς ὑμᾶς πνεῦμα ζωῆς, καὶ δώσω ἐφ' ὑμᾶς νεῦρα, καὶ ἀνάξω ἐφ' ὑμᾶς σάρκας, καὶ ἐκτενῶ ἐφ' ὑμᾶς δέρμα, καὶ δώσω ἐφ' ὑμᾶς τὸ πνεῦμά μου, καὶ ζήσεσθε καὶ γνώσεσθε, ὅτι ἐγὼ κύριος.» ἡ οὖν οὐσιωδῶς ζωὴ καὶ ἡ ζωοποιὸς δύναμις οὔτ' ἀρχὴν οὔτε πέρας οὔτ' ἀλλοίωσιν ἔχει· τὸ δὲ τούτοις μὴ ὑποπῖπτον φύσει καὶ ἀληθείᾳ θεός ἐστιν, ἅτε δὴ καὶ τὰ κατ' ἐξαίρετον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς οἴκοθεν κεκτημένον. οὐδὲν γὰρ κτιστὸν ζωῆς αἴτιον εἶναι ἢ ζωὴν ἐν ἑαυτῷ δεικνύναι δύναται· πάντα δὲ νεκρὰ τὰ τοῦ θεϊκοῦ πνεύματος ἐστερημένα· «ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν,» ὡς ἔφασαν αἱ ἀποστολικαὶ πράξεις. καὶ γὰρ εἰ πάντα τὰ γινόμενα καὶ φθαρτά, τὰ δὲ φθειρόμενα στερεῖται ζωῆς ὑπομένοντα· πῶς ἂν ἄλλοις χαρίσαιτο ταῦτα, ὧν αὐτὰ γίνεται ἐνδεῆ; ζωοποιούμεθα δὴ οὖν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ὡς καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ εἰπόντος· «ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀνάστασις καὶ ἡ ζωή.» 7.2ν ὅτι διὰ τὴν ταυτότητα τῆς θεότητος καὶ τὴν ἴσην ἐνέργειαν γέγραπται, ὡς ἤγειρεν τὸν ἑκουσίως δι' ἡμᾶς παθόντα σαρκὶ Χριστὸν ποτὲ πατὴρ, ποτὲ αὐτὸς ἑαυτόν, ποτὲ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα. καὶ κατὰ αἱρετικῆς ἐκθέσεως. ὅτι διὰ τὴν ταυτότητα τῆς θεότητος καὶ τὴν μίαν ἐνέργειαν λέγουσιν αἱ γραφαί, ὡς κατὰ τὴν τοῦ δούλου μορφὴν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἤγειρεν ποτὲ ὁ πατήρ, ποτὲ αὐτὸς ἑαυτόν, ποτὲ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα· οὑτωσὶ αἱ πράξεις· «τοῦτον ὁ θεὸς ἤγειρεν τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ·» Ἰωάννης ἀπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος· «λύσατε τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον, καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις ἐγερῶ αὐτόν. αὐτὸς δὲ ἔλεγεν περὶ τοῦ ναοῦ τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ·» καὶ πάλιν· «ἐγὼ τίθημι τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἵνα πάλιν λάβω αὐτήν. οὐδεὶς αἴρει αὐτὴν ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, ἀλλ' ἐγὼ τίθημι αὐτήν. ἐξουσίαν ἔχω θεῖναι αὐτήν, καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχω πάλιν λαβεῖν αὐτήν.» Πέτρος ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ ἐπιστολῇ· «Χριστὸς ἅπαξ περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀπέθανεν, δίκαιος ὑπὲρ ἀδίκων, ἵνα ἡμᾶς προσαγάγῃ τῷ θεῷ· θανατωθεὶς μὲν σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς δὲ πνεύματι.» 7.3ν ὅτι δημιουργεῖ καὶ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγείρει. ἐν ταὐτῷ, ὅτι τὸ ἁγιάσαι δημιουργῆσαί ἐστιν καὶ ἀναγκαιότερον τοῦ δημιουργῆσαι. καὶ κατὰ αἱρετικῆς ἐκθέσεως. ὅτι δημιουργεῖ τὸ μέγα κτίσμα τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγείρει καὶ ζωοποιεῖ καὶ εἰς οὐρανὸν ἐπιστρέφει καὶ συγκαταρρυεῖσαν ταῖς ἀνθρωπίναις ἀνομίαις τὴν γῆν ἀνεκαίνισε πάλιν καὶ ἀνέθαλψε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἄνευ πραγματείας καὶ οἷον αὐτομάτως, ἅτε συνδημιουργὸς καὶ ἰσουργὸς τοῦ ὑποστήσαντος αὐτὴν κατ' ἀρχὰς ἀρχιτέχνου θεοῦ, ὡς γνῶναι ἡμῖν ἐφίεται, ἐξ ὧν ἐξέφηναν οὗτοι· Ἰώβ· «πνεῦμα θεῖον τὸ ποιῆσάν με· πνοὴ δὲ παντοκράτορος, ἡ διδάσκουσά με.» ∆αυὶδ ἐν μὲν ργʹ ψαλμῷ· «ἐξαποστελεῖς τὸ πνεῦμα σου καὶ κτισθήσονται, καὶ ἀνακαινιεῖς τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς.» τοῦτο βεβαιοῖ ὁ ἀπόστολος γράφων Κορινθίοις τὸ δεύτερον· «ὥστε εἴ τις ἐν Χριστῷ, καινὴ κτίσις· τὰ ἀρχαῖα παρῆλθεν, ἰδοὺ γέγονε καινὰ τὰ πάντα.» ἐν δὲ λβʹ ψαλμῷ· «τῷ λόγῳ κυρίου οἱ οὐρανοὶ ἐστερεώθησαν, καὶ τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ στό ματος αὐτοῦ πᾶσαι αἱ δυνάμεις αὐτῶν» μὴ παραδράμῃς τὰ αὐτόθεν ἀκούεσθαι δυνάμενα· ἀλλ' ἴδε, ὅτιπερ-ὡς δημιουργὸς καὶ ἀγαθὸς θεός-μένον εἰς ἀεὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ φιλίαν μόνιμον τῇ κτίσει χορηγεῖ καὶ ἀλύτοις αὐτὴν ἔσφιγξε δεσμοῖς καὶ ἥδρασεν. ἀκατάσειστον καὶ πάντα τῇ ἑαυτοῦ δυνάμει στηρίζει· καὶ ὅτι ἀθέμιτόν ἐστι κτίσμα καλεῖν τὸ κτίζον καὶ ἐνδυναμοῦν τοῦ θεοῦ τὰ κτίσματα. συνεργὸν γὰρ καὶ